Black Canyon
I made this early in the morning this week on June 4, 2024. With a fresh tube of carbon black heavy body acrylic paint pressed-out into a butcher pan, I spread a good portion across the paper with a plastic hotel card key. No plan in mind I let the dark form this pattern. I took a heavy body green gold tube and did the same along the base of the cliff, and coming back with a loaded 1” wide watercolor brush full of water folding the foreground. The green gold diluted out and ran down to the bottom in the channels of water. I washed out the brush. It had a little green tint to it now. The same brush was used to saturated most of the upper part of the paper and grabbing Winsor Blue W&N heavy body acrylic let it flow and dilute as it wanted. A little heavy body titanium white was involved, but very little. I loved the way the sky came out, the green field in front of the dark cliffs, and the tiny highlight of red I used n the end.
I made this early in the morning this week on June 4, 2024. With a fresh tube of carbon black heavy body acrylic paint pressed-out into a butcher pan, I spread a good portion across the paper with a plastic hotel card key. No plan in mind I let the dark form this pattern. I took a heavy body green gold tube and did the same along the base of the cliff, and coming back with a loaded 1” wide watercolor brush full of water folding the foreground. The green gold diluted out and ran down to the bottom in the channels of water. I washed out the brush. It had a little green tint to it now. The same brush was used to saturated most of the upper part of the paper and grabbing Winsor Blue W&N heavy body acrylic let it flow and dilute as it wanted. A little heavy body titanium white was involved, but very little. I loved the way the sky came out, the green field in front of the dark cliffs, and the tiny highlight of red I used n the end.
I made this early in the morning this week on June 4, 2024. With a fresh tube of carbon black heavy body acrylic paint pressed-out into a butcher pan, I spread a good portion across the paper with a plastic hotel card key. No plan in mind I let the dark form this pattern. I took a heavy body green gold tube and did the same along the base of the cliff, and coming back with a loaded 1” wide watercolor brush full of water folding the foreground. The green gold diluted out and ran down to the bottom in the channels of water. I washed out the brush. It had a little green tint to it now. The same brush was used to saturated most of the upper part of the paper and grabbing Winsor Blue W&N heavy body acrylic let it flow and dilute as it wanted. A little heavy body titanium white was involved, but very little. I loved the way the sky came out, the green field in front of the dark cliffs, and the tiny highlight of red I used n the end.
Medium: Acrylic on Acid-Free Paper
Size: 11 in. X 14 in.
Status: Unmatted, Unframed